MAD: Obama goes 'Spy vs. Spy'

Think there’s nothing funny about the federal government invading your privacy? Check out the next issue of MAD magazine.

Its latest issue, on newsstands Aug. 28, features President Barack Obama overseeing the magazine’s Spy vs. Spy characters as they sharpen their best eavesdropping devices. (For loyal MAD magazine fans, this is the first time that Spy vs. Spy has been featured as main cover characters.)

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The subject of privacy has been in the news ever since Edward Snowden revealed NSA surveillance programs earlier this year. The president even talked about surveillance on Jay Leno on Tuesday night saying, “We don’t have a domestic spying program.”

Obama has been a staple of MAD magazine covers in recent years, including for his drone policy, and the magazine declared in 2010 that it was over the president.